Robert J. Morgan Quote

When Handel was asked why his music was so cheerful, he replied, I can’t make any other. I write as I feel. When I think on God my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen. —George Frideric Handel

Robert J. Morgan

When Handel was asked why his music was so cheerful, he replied, I can’t make any other. I write as I feel. When I think on God my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen. —George Frideric Handel

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About Robert J. Morgan

Judge Robert J. Morgan (1826–1899) was an American lawyer, planter and Confederate veteran. Born and educated in Georgia, he became a lawyer in Memphis, Tennessee, and planter in adjacent Mississippi. During the American Civil War, he served as a colonel in the infantry of the Confederate States Army from 1861 to 1863, and as Adjutant-General to Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk in 1863–1864. He served as Chancellor on the Chancery Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, from 1870 to 1878.